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Philippians 2:12Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. 14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing,15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of Godwithout fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain.17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.18 So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.

Okay, Lord! I heard you! I am working out my Salvation with fear and trembling, for it is you my Savior that works in me to will and to act in order to fulfill your good purpose concerning me. Yes, Lord! I don’t want to grumble or argue, I don’t want to complain either! I want to shine as stars in the sky for you said I am a city set upon a hill that cannot be hidden – Matthew 5:14.

Daddy, where has sound teachings gone? Why from your sanctuary? I mean the kind that feeds my spirit man, stirs me to confess and repent of the sins in my life. The teaching that I used to hear and get inspired to speak to others about you. Those teachings that fire me up to reach out to you more! Those teachings that reveal the deep-seated unbelief and doubt in my heart! Those teachings that open my eyes in worship to see the heavens open with angels descending and ascending like Jacob– Genesis 28:12?Those words inspired by your Holy Spirit that cuts through the barrier evil was and is trying to build in and around my heart! Where has it all gone?

I don’t want to grumble, but Lord, all I hear these days is one man or woman selling something on the pulpit!As one is selling their newest jet, car, house, another is selling the image of himself, herself, her husband, wife, in-laws, friends, and children! Others are selling their newest toys, beauty product, favorite past time, and all sort!Many are yet building a monument for idols in the heart of your people!You said not to forsake the assembling of saints – Hebrews 10:25!

What do I do Lord? What do we do? Many have fallen away. Many flee to a seemingly greener pasture only to find it a mirage! Many are hibernating with the danger of sleeping the sleep of death – for it is just a matter of time, a once blazing coal easily goes out if isolated! Oh, many more do not even want to come to your sanctuary anymore, deceived by the deceiver that it may probably be a joke! Unreal Lord! We, your children, thirsty and weary need you, we need an iron that sharpens iron – Proverbs 27:17. We wanna be transformed more and more Lord!

On behalf of my brethren and I, Lord, I ask, send help to us. Your work has been twisted to fan the fantasy of man, Father, send your wind! Let your Holy Spirit reignite the fire on your altars, on the altars of our hearts too! My soul is thirsty Lord Jesus, refresh me in your mercy! Be kind to me and my brethren, send us help, yes, from your sanctuary! Raise up Souls on fire by your Holy Spirit that will rebuild the broken down walls in your Sanctuary we pray Oh Lord in Jesus mighty name!

Psalm 2:1-6 Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, 3 “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.” 4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. 5 He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, 6 “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”
Friends, some wicked and stubborn enemies of your soul, in my dailect – ogun aleni ma deyin, who has been pursuing you relentlessly will “meet with their Waterloo” this season in Christ Jesus Mighty Name. They’ve been at it for so long and are very confident that the Lord does not see, so he cannot do anything about it. Does he, who made the eyes not see? Or he who created the ears, not hear – Psalms 94:9?

When king David took Uriah’s wife, laid with her, proceeded to set Uriah up, he meant to deceive him, the wickedness of man! The King suddenly developed fondness towards Uriah. He sent for him from the war front and ultimately set him up, sent him to die at the war front, all this while the Lord looked on- 2 Samuel 11. God in His mercy however, sent a prophet in 2 Samuel 12, Uriah’s life had already been cut short, his dreams died, and the king repented. We shall not die from the scheming of the wicked in Jesus mighty name. Amen.

King Ahab also was fixated on taking Naboth piece of land. It was the only property recorded for Naboth and it was his inheritance. Ahab, been the King of Israel had access to any land, choicest land in Israel, but Naboth’s inheritance. Well, with the aid of Jezebel and some “Knockheads” Naboth was killed and his inheritance stolen 1 kings 21:1-3. The Lord sent prophet Elijah to give a verdict which was fulfilled in an instance in 1 Kings 22:37-38. The Lord does see!!!!!!

What is all this about you might be thinking? You see friends, the enemy of our soul is Satan himself, however he makes use of some who have allowed themselves to be used of the devil.Some who have sold their souls as agent of the devil to trouble your life and mine. Those in covenant league with the devil that do not want your joy and mine to last. Those that have purposed in their heart that until they kill you, your joy, peace and progress like in Acts 23: 12 and 13 they will not eat. The Lord laughs at them.

Friends, the Lord our ” God is just ; He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and I. And he will give us relief 2 Thessalonians 1:6. As Joshua pronounced a curse in Joshua 6:26 and it was fulfilled in 1 kings 16:34. I declare in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who by His mercy saved you and I friends. The wall of Jericho- the wall of reproach, poverty, sickness, sorrow, shame, lack, bondage, oppression etc that the Lord has broken down, whoever attempt to pull it up, build it up around you and I and all that concerns us shall do so at the cost of their first born child, and everything good they have, and at the cost of their own lives. For it is written, I will give lives for your lives – Isaiah 43:4. Whoever sit in the dark projecting evil towards the Lord’s anointed shall reap hundred folds speedily in the name of Jesus Christ.

By the power that raised Christ Jesus from the dead, whoever connive with the wicked to do you and I, our children, spouses, family harm, shall be swallowed up like Korah, Dathan and Abiram in Numbers 16 for they have rebelled against the Lord our God who’s we are.

Father, you are not for the death of a sinner but for the forgiveness of sin. We ask Lord, that the same mercy and grace you have shown to us be released upon the agents working against your plan and purpose for our lives. Let your love convict them of their sin and bring about repentance and a turning away from the path of destruction in Jesus mighty name Amen.

If they however are adamant as in Act of the Apostles 23, Lord the judgement due unto such, please measure it out in hundred folds upon them speedily in Jesus mighty name Amen.

Lord we thank you for your mercy and goodness towards us. We love and honor you Lord. Be magnified in our lives Lord. Let your kingdom come and your will be done in Christ Jesus Mighty Name.

A Sermon(No. 135)Delivered on Sabbath Morning, June 7, 1857, by the
REV. C. H. Spurgeon
at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens.

Psalms 19:13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins;Let them not have dominion over me.Then I shall be blameless,And I shall be innocent of great transgression.

Again: some men, I have said, sin deliberately, and others do not do so. Now, in order to show that there is a distinction here, let me take a case. To-morrow the bench of magistrates are sitting. Two men are brought up. They are each of them charged with stealing a loaf of bread. It is clearly proved, in the one case, that the man was hungry, and that he snatched the loaf of bread to satisfy his necessities. He is sorry for his deed, he grieves that he has done this act; but most manifestly he had a strong temptation to it. In the other case the man was rich, and he willfully went into the shop merely because he would break the law and show that he was a law-breaker. He said to the policeman outside, “Now, I care neither for you nor the law; I intend to go in there, just to see what you can do with me.” I can suppose the magistrate would say to one man, “You are discharged; take care not to do the like again; there is something for your present necessities; seek to earn an honest living.” But to the other I can conceive him saying, “You are an infamous wretch; you have committed the same deed as the other, but from very different motives; I give you the longest term of imprisonment which the law allows me, and I can only regret that I can not treat you worse than I have done.” The presumption of sin made the difference. So when you sin deliberately and knowingly, your sin against Almighty God is a higher and a blacker sin than it would have been if you had sinned ignorantly, or sinned in haste.Now let us suppose one more case. In the heat of some little dispute some one shall insult a man. You shall be insulted by a man of angry temper; you have not provoked him, you gave him no just cause for it; but at the same time he was of a hot and angry disposition; he was somewhat foiled in the debate, and he insulted you, calling you by some name which has left a stain upon your character, so far as epithets can do it. I can suppose that you would ask no reparation of him, if by to-morrow you saw that it was just a rash word spoken in haste, of which he repented. But suppose another person should waylay you in the street, should week after week seek to meet you in the market-place, and should, after a great deal of toil and trouble, at last meet you, and there, in the center of a number of people, unprovoked, just out of sheer, deliberate malice, come before you and call you a liar in the street; I can suppose that, Christian as you are, you might find it necessary to chastise such insolence, not with your hand, but with the arm of that equitable law which protects us all from insulting violence. In the other case I can suppose it would be no trouble to forgive. You would say, “My dear fellow, I know we are all hasty sometimes—there, now, I don’t care at all for it; you did not mean it.” But in this case, where a man has dared and defied you without any provocation whatever, you would say to him, “Sir, you have endeavored to injure me in respectable society; I can forgive you as a Christian, but as a man and a citizen I shall demand that I am protected against your insolence.”You see, therefore, in the cases that occur between man and man, how there is an excess of guilt added to a sin by presumption. O! ye that have sinned presumptuously—and who among us has not done so?—bow your heads in silence, confess your guilt, and then open your mouths, and cry, “Lord have mercy upon me, a presumptuous sinner.”III. And now I have nearly done—not to weary you by too long a discourse—we shall notice THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THIS PRAYER—”Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins.”Will you just note, that this prayer was the prayer of a saint, the prayer of a holy man of God? Did David need to pray thus? Did the “man after God’s own heart” need to cry, “Keep back thy servant?” Yes, he did. And note the beauty of the prayer. If I might translate it into more metaphorical style, it is like this: “Curb thy servant from presumptuous sin.” “Keep him back or he will wander to the edge of the precipice of sin. Hold him in, Lord; he is apt to run away; curb him; put the bridle on him; do not let him do it; let thine overpowering grace keep him holy; when he would do evil, then do thou draw him to good, and when his evil propensities would lead him astray, then do thou check him.” “Check thy servant from presumptuous sins.”What then? Is It true that the best of men may sin presumptuously? Ah! it is true. It is a solemn thing to find the Apostle Paul warning saints against the most loathsome of sins. He says, “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, idolatry, inordinate affection,” and such like. What! do saints want warning against such sins as these? Yes, they do. The highest saints may sin the lowest sins, unless kept by divine grace. You old experienced Christians, boast not in your experience; you may trip yet, unless you cry, “Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.” Ye whose love is fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes an bright, say not “I shall never sin,” but rather cry out, “Lord, lead me not into temptation, and when there leave me not there; for unless thou hold me fast I feel I must, I shall decline, and prove an apostate after all.” There is enough tinder in the hearts of the best men in the world to light a fire that shall burn to the lowest hell, unless God should quench the sparks as they fall. There is enough corruption, depravity, and wickedness in the heart of the most holy man that is now alive to damn his soul to all eternity, if free and sovereign grace does not prevent. O Christian, thou hast need to pray this prayer. But I think I hear you saying, “Is thy servant a dog, that I should do this thing?” So said Hazael, when the prophet told him that he would slay his master; but he went home and took a wet cloth and spread it over his master’s face and choked him, and did the next day the sin which he abhorred before. Think it not enough to abhor sin, you may yet fall into it. Say not, “I never can be drunken, for I have such an abhorrence of drunkenness;” thou mayest fall where thou art most secure. Say not, “I can never blaspheme God, for I have never done so in my life;” take care; you may yet swear most profanely. Job might have said, “I will never curse the day of my birth;” but he lived to do it. He was a patient man; he might have said, “I will never murmur; though he slay me, yet will I trust in him;” and yet he lived to wish that the day were darkness wherein he was brought forth. Boast not, then, O Christian; by faith thou standest. “Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”But if this need to be the prayer of the best, how ought it to be the prayer of you and me? If the highest saint must pray it, O mere moralist, thou hast good need to utter it. And ye who have begun to sin, who make no pretensions to piety, how much need is there for you to pray that you may be kept from presumptuously rebelling against God.Instead, however, of enlarging upon that point, I shall close my few remarks this morning by just addressing myself most affectionately to such of you as are now under a sense of guilt by reason of presumptuous sins. God’s Spirit has found some of you out this morning. I thought when I was describing presumptuous sin that I saw here and there an eye that was suffused with tears; I thought I saw here and there a head that was bowed down, as much as to say, “I am guilty there.” I thought there were some hearts that palpitated with confession, when I described the guilt of presumption. I hope it was so. If it was I am glad of it. If I hit your consciences, it was that I meant to do. Not to your ears do I speak, but to your hearts. I would not give the snap of this my finger to gratify you with mere words of oratory, with a mere flow of language. No, God is my witness. I never sought effect yet, except the effect of hitting your consciences. I would use the words that would be most rough and vulgar in all our language, if I could get at your heart better with them than with any other; for I reckon that the chief matter with a minister is to touch the conscience. If any of you feel, then, that you have presumed against God in sinning, let me just bid you look at your sin, and weep over the blackness of it; let me exhort you to go home and bow your heads with sorrow, and confess your guilt, and weep over it with many tears and sighs. You have greatly sinned, and if God should blast you into perdition now, he would be just; if now his fiery thunderbolt of vengeance should pierce you through, if the arrow that is now upon the string of the Almighty should find a target in your heart, he would be just. Go home and confess that, confess it with cries and sighs. And then what next wilt thou do? Why, I bid thee remember that there was a man who was a God. That man suffered for presumptuous sin. I would bid thee this day, sinner, if thou knowest thy need of a Saviour, go up to thy chamber, cast thyself upon thy face, and weep for sin; and when thou hast done that, turn to the Scriptures, and read the story of that man who suffered and died for sin. Think you see him in all his unutterable agonies, and griefs, and woes, and say this—

“My soul looks back to see
The burdens thou didst bear
When hanging on the accursed tree,
And hopes her guilt was there.”
Lift up your hand, and put it on his head who bled, and say,

“My faith would lay its hand
On that dear head of thine,
While, like a penitent, I stand,
And there confess my sin.”Sit down at the foot of his cross, and watch him till your heart is moved, till the tears begin to flow again, until your heart breaks within you; and then you will rise and say—

“Dissolved by his mercy, I fall to the ground,
And weep to the praise of the mercy I found.”
O sinner, thou canst never perish, if thou wilt cast thyself at the foot of the cross. If thou seekest to save thyself thou shalt die; if thou wilt come, just as thou art, all black, all filthy, all hell-deserving, all ill-deserving, I am my Master’s hostage, I will be answerable at the day of judgment for this matter, if he does not save thee, I can preach on this subject now, for I trust I have tried my Master myself. As a youth I sinned, as a child I rebelled, as a young man I wandered into lusts and vanities: my Master made me feel how great a sinner I was and I sought to reform, to mend the matter; but I grew worse. At last I heard it said, “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth;” and I looked to Jesus. And O! my Saviour, thou hast eased my aching conscience, thou hast given me peace; thou hast enabled me to say#151;

“Now, freed from sin I walk at large;
My Saviour’s blood’s a full discharge
At his dear feet my soul I lay,
A sinner saved, and homage pay.”
And O! my heart pants for you. O that you who never knew him could taste his love now. O that you who have never repented might now receive the Holy Ghost who is able to melt the heart! And O that you who are penitents would look to him now! And I repeat that solemn assertion—I am God’s hostage this morning; ye shall feed me on bread and water to my life’s end, ay, and I will bear the blame for ever, if any of you seek Christ and Christ rejects you. It must not, it can not be. “Whosoever cometh,” he says, “I will in no wise cast out.” “He is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him.” May God Almighty bless you; and may we meet again in yonder Paradise; and there will we sing more sweetly of redeeming love and dying blood, and of Jesus’ power to save#151;

“When this poor lisping, stammering tongue
Lies silent in the grave.” (Read the full sermon on http://www.spurgeon.org/sermons/0135.htm